Hi all 
This is my monthly status report for October 2024 with the main relevant
activities I have done, was involved or are related to my work during the
period.
# Onionprobe Ansible Role
A considerable time was spent finding ways to structure and test Ansible
roles, collections and playbooks through GitLab CI. Goal is to provide
easier-to use procedures to manage Onion Services infrastructure.
As a direct result of this research, it was possible to finally refactor and
release an Ansible role to manage Onionprobe, a monitoring tool for onionsites:
It was interesting to research how to do basic Ansible tests using GitLab CI,
and a special thanks goes to TPA for providing the base Podman image which
allows running Podman in a GitLab CI job:
# Onionprobe
Onionprobe itself got some improvements, including support for running the
standalone monitor node with Podman:
https://onionservices.torproject.org/apps/web/onionprobe/standalone/
# OnionSec
The OnionSec library and command line for testing onionsites got some
enhancements as well: Misc improvements by rhatto · Pull Request #1 · TheEnbyperor/onion-sec · GitHub
# Libraries
The Onion Services Ecosystem got a Libraries page:
https://onionservices.torproject.org/dev/libraries/
It still needs some improvements, and also some input from the upstream
devs to check accuracy:
# Support
Finally, also did the usual and ongoing sponsored work with deployment,
maintenance and monitoring of Onion Services.
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Silvio Rhatto
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